Sift Stack
Staff Software Engineer, Data
San Francisco, CA · Staff+
Work authorization required$200k-$250kDetected 267 days ago
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About the role
- Salary range: $200,000 - $250,000 per year.
Responsibilities
- Design and build a horizontally scalable platform for ingesting millions of hardware sensor data points per second
- Develop durable, efficient database solutions to support real-time reads and large-scale analytics workloads
- Pioneer data architecture by integrating recent innovations in streaming and storage, including cloud-native and diskless designs
- Collaborate closely with peers on architecture, design, code reviews, and scaling strategies
- We collaborate in person twice a week-on Mondays and Thursdays-and come together for a full week every two months.
- Experience building resilient, performant systems that scale to billions of records
Requirements
- U.S. Person Required: Must be a U.S. citizen, lawful permanent resident, or protected individual such as an asylee or refugee in compliance with ITAR (International Traffic in Arms Regulations) / EAR (Export Administration Regulations) regulations.
- Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Physics, or another STEM discipline
- 7+ years of experience in backend, infrastructure, or data engineering roles
- Hands-on experience with event-time-based stream processing or streaming SQL systems using tools like Apache Flink, Kafka Streams, Beam, or similar
- Proficiency with relational and time-series databases like PostgreSQL, Druid, Pinot, TimescaleDB, or equivalent
- Experience with large-scale distributed systems or low-latency backend services, ideally written in Go, Rust, or Python
Skills
- Sift is the data infrastructure platform for hardware engineering teams.
- Sift turns high-frequency telemetry into engineering insights for mission-critical systems.
Compensation
- $200,000 - $250,000 per year. Plus equity and benefits.
- Salary range: $200,000 - $250,000 per year.
Benefits
- Plus equity and benefits.
Company info
- We are open to relocating candidates to LA or working from our San Francisco office for the right candidate.
Visa & Work Authorization
- U.S. Person Required: Must be a U
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